{"id":439762,"date":"2026-08-21T21:06:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T21:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/439762\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T21:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T21:06:44","slug":"kitesurfer-pulled-from-strong-current-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/439762\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitesurfer pulled from strong current in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A kitesurfer was rescued in San Francisco after becoming caught in a strong ebb current on Tuesday, August 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police used a drone to locate the distressed surfer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage released by the San Francisco Police Department shows San Francisco Fire Department rescuers using a jet ski and a boat to assist the kitesurfer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities said the surfer was brought to safety and no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Storyful: <a data-ylk=\"slk:Kitesurfer pulled from strong current in San Francisco;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/state\/california\/2026\/08\/21\/kitesurfer-pulled-from-strong-current-in-san-francisco\/91408235007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Kitesurfer pulled from strong current in San Francisco<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A kitesurfer was rescued in San Francisco after becoming caught in a strong ebb current on Tuesday, August&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,4773,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-439762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-fire-department","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}